Example sentences of "[noun] over the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sloth has been graded Hard Severe , VS and HVS over the years . |
| 2 | the basis of the defence is the absence of any control by the defendant over the acts of a stranger on his land and therefore the nature of the stranger 's conduct is irrelevant . |
| 3 | 3 Stir in the vanilla essence , then strain the custard over the raspberries and almonds and leave to cool . |
| 4 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 5 | In spite of a long-established programme , with the best technical expertise in the world , the programme over the years has achieved a very mixed success . |
| 6 | Commented development director Ian Coull : ‘ The clerks of works have provided a very valuable role to the JS development programme over the years , and within the team there was a number of very long serving JS staff , whose knowledge and wise counsel will be hard to replace . ’ |
| 7 | Toby continued : ‘ As for this Harley business , we now know that there has been a closer relationship between Martinez and Jefferson over the years than the normal one of agent and manufacturer . |
| 8 | You 've dragged me along to all your trade shows and staff socials over the years . |
| 9 | The KGB had penetrated all these organizations over the years , but the purpose and the location of this summit was kept secret . |
| 10 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 11 | Wynne-Jones constructed a fire and pushed cut fragments of the wild pig over the flames . |
| 12 | His emphatic win gave Dunlop their second victory in two races and virtually erased any doubts over the tyres ' performance in the crucial rubber war . |
| 13 | And if you were to try to extend that very demanding conception over the dandelions and the tapeworms as well , you would be in trouble . |
| 14 | it 's like an archway over the trees yeah |
| 15 | This is left oversized , the tenons cut on the ends of the back uprights and the positions for the mortises marked off by laying the rail piece over the tenons . |
| 16 | So what you 've achieved is this piece over the stairs . |
| 17 | It is clear there is considerable uncertainty over the effects of dredging this and other submarine accumulations of sand and gravel in the Bristol Channel . |
| 18 | It is clear there is considerable uncertainty over the effects of dredging this and other submarine accumulations of sand and gravel in the Bristol Channel . |
| 19 | Bill Clinton 's defeat of George Bush in the US presidential elections cast an air of uncertainty over the talks . |
| 20 | However , it also reflected uncertainty over the costs of reprocessing spent fuel and decommissioning nuclear plants . |
| 21 | This argues that the volatility of futures prices will be relatively high during periods when substantial amounts of uncertainty over the levels of demand or supply for the underlying asset are resolved . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher 's later versions of the affair showed much uncertainty over the facts . |
| 23 | Boris Pintar , 44 , told police he found the shells over the years while tilling near Gorizia , Italy . |
| 24 | Admittedly , Bagnères has captured some notable intellectual clients over the centuries : Montaigne back in the sixteenth century , and the whimsical Laurence Sterne , author of Tristram Shandy , in the eighteenth . |
| 25 | They maybe have n't listened to their clients enough , particularly their industrial and commercial clients over the years . |
| 26 | They contained full sets of clubs with new covers over the woods . |
| 27 | As you clamber down the mountainside over the strata , the fossils suddenly disappear . |
| 28 | But whilst Best is certainly under pressure to continue England 's winning ways into the Five Nations Championship , the realist with the acid tongue and the blunt manners , which have been the bane of countless committeemen and lacklustre trainers over the years , is by no means just a dour pragmatist . |
| 29 | There were also many other gorgeous flowers for this beautiful actress , who has given so many theatregoers great joy by her performances over the years . |
| 30 | She cast a suspicious glance over the lockers and then shook herself for her wild imaginings . |